Scientists Expect Better Acceptance for Genetically Edited Fruit Crops
August 20, 2014| |
Genetic editing of fruits and other crops could be the way to go in biotech progress, that is according to an article published in Trends in Biotechnology on August 13, 2014.
According to Chidananda Nagamangala Kanchiswamy of Agrario San Michele in Italy, one of the authors of the article, genetically edited organisms (GEOs) do not have inserted genes from other organisms. Thus, these can be considered as another form of genetic modification. Changes in the genes can be employed by applying small genetic tweaks such as insertion, deletion, or altering existing genes of interest in the plant.
Kanchiswamy is expecting that GEOs will be widely accepted by the society at large, similar with GMOs, particularly in EU. GEOs could be considered as nongenetically modified, depending on the interpretation of the EU commission and member state regulators.
For more details, read http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167779914001474.
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